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Is there any good brewing software for a Mac? I checked out Beersmith and ProMash and neither are available for a Mac as far as I can tell.Please let me know if there's something else I should be looking at.Thanks

Refer to the above quoted threads by all means, but in a nutshell, just look for BEER ALCHEMY.Reasonably priced, very editable/customizable and very Mac. Written from the ground up by a Mac user for Mac users.

I don't rely on software too much to tell me what I should be doing (my tastebuds do that better than the software can) but the software can be useful for sharing recipes, scaling them, and doing rough calculations.

Got Beer Alchemy all set up including the link to the iphone..... and don't use it. I have a ring binder and make "numbers" spreadsheets for each batch. It's just handier to have paper to look at or jot a time down than it is a laptop. What I do have and use all the time is an iPhone app called BrewMath.

Thanks everyone.What I'm really after is a method for figuring out my strike temperature for the water that will be added to my grain. I sort of "winged it" last time and it didn't go as well as I would have hoped. I know ProMash is supposed to help calculate this. Besides that, I don't think I'd be using a calculator for too much. I have used BeerTools on-line before to get a sense of how an idea compares to the standards for that style but I'm not really looking to re-create styles yet as much as perfect a plain pale ale.I'll check all of these out.

Thanks Jeffy. That's what I was needing. I just played around with it for a few minutes (I really have to stop thinking about beer when I should be working) and it is interesting to see that the volume of water has much more impact than the temp of the grains.

it is interesting to see that the volume of water has much more impact than the temp of the grains.

The impact is based on weight (mass, actually) and the weight of the water far exceeds the weight of the grain. In addition, the specific heat (or heat capacity, can never keep them straight) of water is 1.00 so you get 100% of the benefit of it's heat. The same value for grain is around .38-.40 so you only get about 40% of the benefit of it's heat.